Cannot edit homepage/front page permalink

  • Resolved vicky2

    (@vicky2)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I have read most of the many forum threads about similar issues but have not found an answer. All my posts and all my pages except the homepage allow me to edit the permalink. I have a static front page. The permalink is showing as my site URL, but I want it to show URL/page (or post( title the way all the other pages and posts do automatically (they also allow manual editing). It is not showing an edit box. I can edit the slug, but that does not show in the URL. My intention is to have the page title in the URL. In other words, if my site is pets.com and my page title is How to Name Your Oet and I chose that as my static front page, I would want the permalink to be pets.com/how-to-name-your-pet. Instead, I’m getting just pets.com.

    I don’t have it set to the default permalinks, I have the one that says sample-post. I don’t have pages in the trash that have the same words in the title.

    I don’t know how to find the database for this site in my C Panel, but I do not think an image permalink is the issue, because many of my posts have the images with the same words as are in the permalink. However, I would like to look into this, but I have several sites and a bunch of databases that built themselves and named themselves random letters so being a non-database person I do not know which one goes with this site.

    Thanks, I very much appreciate any help!

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  • That’s how things are setup. If you select a page to be a front page it automatically becomes pets.com and nothing else. If you’d like the URL, the only thing I can think of is not to make that page a front page and either setup a redirect or customize your .htaccess to hit that page URL first before anything else.

    If I’m correct there is no other way in WordPress to set it up otherwise.

    Thread Starter vicky2

    (@vicky2)

    Oh I see, thank you.

    You are welcome. ??

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